I'd seen a lot of terrible shit when I was in the military. I hadn't seen evil until I started combat and human trafficking.

Most people's imaginations can even create the scenario of the reality of these children.

It's that bad.

And we're friggin warriors, man,

like get myself up pumped up.

That's what I'm saying, like you got your SF,

we got these veterans, like our job is to go kick the enemy's ass and I'm telling you those are that are abusing God's children like that that's the enemy man like our mission ain't over to all those hopes are rescued it ain't over. To all those hopes are rescued, it ain't over man and what we're trying to really do is with these

these issues that, you know, are so pertinent to all of our lives and that are complicated

and hard and sometimes hard to look at and for some reason at times politicize what we try to do is

You know talk to guys with real boots on the ground guys who are really at the front lines of these issues and from all the homework I've done and from everything,

from everyone who I've talked to from the law enforcement community, special forces community,

you know your name has come up so many times as as that guy I just think for that I just I just want to start out by just saying how grateful I am that you're here man and what you do

Why you do it and and kind of how it works.

So I guess just to start off, I mean, can you just say a little bit about who you are

and kind of what you do with Ariel and what you guys are all about?

Yeah, man.

So, you know, I'm just, I'm actually a West Coast

originally from Oregon.

So we're out here in California, but I'm a veteran man,

first and foremost, 20 years in the the Army I spent about 10 of those years in the

special forces out of fifth group in Fort Campbell Kentucky retired in 2021 I mean I got a whole story behind this but my wife and I we started a

nonprofit called their recovery and that's what we do now and what we do is we specialize in

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